Client

sensetofeel

Building a Brand Identity for Body-Based Emotion Work

Branding

Brand Strategy

Visual Identity

Logo Design

June - August 2023

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The opportunity

sensetofeel is a coaching offer for people dealing with chronic exhaustion and constant tension through body-based emotion work. Catarina, the founder, needed a brand identity that could carry a delicate topic with warmth and credibility, without slipping into either clinical coldness or generic wellness aesthetics. The brand needed to feel like a safe space, grounded and human, and at the same time carry enough personality to stand out in a saturated coaching market. My scope covered the full visual identity: logo, color system, typography, visual language, and a brand kit as the foundation for all future touchpoints.

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Brand Concept and Logo

The concept centered on one idea: embodied movement. The mark is an abstracted S that reads as a body embracing itself, and at the same time as a sunrise over the sea. Both readings carry the same meaning of energy, renewal, and the return to feeling one's own body. Flowing, organic lines translate movement, dynamics, and the shift from calm to strength. The open forms hold the tension between softness and power, which is where growth actually happens in this kind of work.

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Visual Language

Beyond the mark, I developed the visual system that carries the brand across touchpoints. A palette built around deep olive, warm cream, and a signal yellow that holds the light of the sunrise motif. Outfit as the working typeface for clarity, Playfair Display Italic used sparingly to bring emphasis and softness where the tone needs to breathe. A collection of hand-drawn brushes gives the brand its human, tactile quality and prevents the system from feeling sterile.

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The Outcome

The final brand kit gave sensetofeel a complete foundation for her digital and printed communication. The website launched shortly after with the new identity, and the visual system now carries across everything from social media to guides. What makes this brand hold up over time: it does not lean on wellness clichés. It works because the visual language is built from the actual philosophy behind the offer.

Reference

"Die Zusammenarbeit mit Sandra hat meine Erwartungen deutlich übertroffen. Der Austausch war einfühlsam, auf höchstem Niveau und hat mir viel Klarheit über meine Marke gegeben. Ich habe mich fachlich wie menschlich hervorragend begleitet gefühlt und bin mit dem Ergebnis mehr als zufrieden. Sandra hat aus meinen abstrakten Vorstellungen ein einzigartiges, hochwertiges und strategisch fundiertes Markenkonzept entwickelt. Für alle, die keine schöne Oberfläche, sondern eine tiefgehende Markenentwicklung suchen, kann ich sie uneingeschränkt empfehlen!"

Catarina Többen-Vieira

Gründerin & CEO sensetofeel

01

What surprised me

The biggest positive surprise was how far the project was willing to go in questioning conventional interface patterns. Premium ambition and the freedom to completely rethink structure rarely come together in IoT projects. Both were treated as core requirements from the start, and that shaped every conceptual decision I made.

02

What challenged me

Designing a cooking experience that simultaneously orchestrates physical devices was new territory. Each conceptual decision had to work on three levels at once: visual elegance, cooking usability, and IoT logic. Balancing these without one undermining the other took several rounds of conceptual exploration.

03

What I would do different

If project scope allowed for it, I would push for more direct testing of the new navigation concepts in the real context of cooking. Designing for a kitchen environment is different from designing for a screen at a desk. User research came up short during this phase, and even a handful of contextual cooking sessions would have validated assumptions that had to stay hypotheses.

04

What I am proud of

Contributing to a product where the digital experience holds up to the physical product. BORA stands for premium kitchen design, and seeing the conceptual work translate into an app that genuinely feels like an extension of the appliances rather than an afterthought is rare in IoT product design. On top of that, working on a project where visual design carries real weight, where craft and detail are treated as a strategic priority rather than a finishing layer, is really rewarding.

Takeaways

Here's what I learned.

Learnings

Here's what I learned.

01

What surprised me

The biggest positive surprise was how far the project was willing to go in questioning conventional interface patterns. Premium ambition and the freedom to completely rethink structure rarely come together in IoT projects. Both were treated as core requirements from the start, and that shaped every conceptual decision I made.

02

What challenged me

Designing a recipe experience that simultaneously orchestrates physical devices was new territory. Each conceptual decision had to work on three levels at once: visual elegance, cooking usability, and IoT logic. Balancing these without one undermining the other took several rounds of conceptual exploration.

03

What I would do different

If project scope allowed for it, I would push for more direct testing of the new navigation concepts in the real context of cooking. Designing for a kitchen environment is different from designing for a screen at a desk. User research came up short during this phase, and even a handful of contextual cooking sessions would have validated assumptions that had to stay hypotheses.

04

What I am proud of

BORA stands for premium kitchen design, and seeing the conceptual work translate into an app that genuinely feels like an extension of the appliances rather than an afterthought is rare in IoT product design. On top of that, working on a project where visual design carries real weight, where craft and detail are treated as a strategic priority rather than a finishing layer, is really rewarding.

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